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...passes of what seemed to be an unknown space object. After detecting several passes during the following days, Captain W. E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Within minutes the news was communicated to President Eisenhower and marked top secret...
Five-Finger Exercise. An English family's hopeless apartness and snapping tension nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer...
...person has made. In a land where a man can be killed by a glass of water thrown in his face (it freezes in flight), and where the main supply of food comes from the hunt, the Eskimo has developed an uncanny sense of observation. He can mimic a stranger on sight, often fools seals by flapping his arms like flippers until he is near enough to throw a harpoon. In his art, he can catch the look of the injured bear, the tension of the hunter standing over a seal hole, the heft and hunch of a seal...
...fading rubber stamp. He goes to the hospital, learns his fate: six months to live. He is shattered. For the first time in 30 years he misses work-one. two, three days in a row. He starts to drink. "I can't die." he mumbles to a stranger he meets in a bar. "I don't know what I've been living for." The stranger replies fiercely: "Greed is considered immoral, but it isn't. Man must have the greediness to live...
...stranger takes the hero on an all-night binge: amusement parks, dance palaces, nightclubs, whorehouses. When the night is over, the hero vomits up everything he has swallowed, everything that has happened. Next morning, on the way home, he meets a healthy, natural, vital young girl. She seems like life itself to him, everything he has missed. He pleads: "I won't be able to die unless I [can] live like you for just one day." She replies: "I only eat and work. I just make toy [bunnies]. I feel as if all the babies in Japan...